under compulsion

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His war book was in this sense a command performance, executed under compulsion by a reluctant but dutiful son.

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2020

What about those who refuse to recant or hide their true beliefs under compulsion, choosing to suffer or die instead?

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2015

The authors didn’t envisage the risk that if employees were working under compulsion, they would be less likely to be engaged, let alone passionate, in its pursuit.

From Forbes • Oct. 14, 2014

The diary exudes confession under compulsion – of imminent death, the fear of retribution in the afterlife, perhaps – but there is nothing of genuine atonement in it.

From The Guardian • Jun. 13, 2014

As soon as the treaty was concluded, Clement VII. absolved Francis from the oath he had taken to observe the Treaty of Madrid on the plea that he had acted under compulsion.

From The First Governess of the Netherlands, Margaret of Austria by Tremayne, Eleanor E.